The E! News host has been open about her rough experience using IVF in an attempt to conceive a child with her longtime fiancé Keven Undergaro. "After months and months of IVF treatments and not feeling myself… I am happy to be able to post this picture & say I feel like me again," Menounos captioned a bikini photo on Instagram last May.

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Emma Thompson

The actress and her husband, actor Greg Wise, had difficulties when trying to conceive a sibling for their daughter Gaia. Her inability to have a second child led Thompson to a struggle with depression.

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Elisabeth Röhm

The actress used IVF to conceive her daughter Easton August with fiancé Ron Anthony and even maintained a blog on People.com detailing her experience with the fertility procedure. She also wrote a book, Baby Steps: Having the Child I Always Wanted (Just Not As I Expected), about her infertility issues.

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Amy Smart

The actress and her husband Carter Oosterhouse welcomed their daughter Flora in December. A month later, Smart posted an emotional Instagram photo revealing that Flora had been born via a surrogate "after years of fertility struggles."

The former The Bachelorettestar (and arguably the franchise's greatest success story) opened up about her infertility struggles when she and husband Ryan Sutter attempted to start a family after their 2003 wedding. The reality star revealed while on her 2015 book tour that she'd struggled with infertility for almost two years before having their children Max and Blakesley.

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Angela Bassett

The American Horror Story actress and her husband Courtney B. Vance opened up on Oprahabout their years-long journey to conceive their fraternal twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, carried via surrogate. They went through seven years of failed fertility treatments before a friend who was using a surrogate herself mentioned the idea to Bassett.

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Kate Walsh

The Private Practice actress has admitted before that she wants children, but recently she revealed that she went through early menopause. "I don't have children. I'm not going to have kids. I went through early menopause.… My older sister called and was like, 'By the way, you should go and get yourself checked because I'm going through menopause early,'" she told Maria Menounos on her SiriusXM radio show. "And I'm like, 'You're just scaring me.' And then, yeah, sure enough, I went and they were like, 'You have one egg.'… It was bleak."

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Kim Kardashian West

Although Kim gave birth to an adorable baby boy, the road to baby number two was a bumpy one. The reality TV star admitted her difficulty conceiving on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, saying, "There are definitely times when I walked out [of the doctor's office] hysterically crying. And other times when I was like, 'Okay, everything's looking good, it's going to be this month!' The waiting and waiting has been a roller coaster."

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Giuliana Rancic

Giuliana and her husband Bill's journey to pregnancy—which they shared on their reality show—included IVF, miscarriage, and a breast cancer diagnosis. Because the TV personality's cancer medication prevented her from carrying her own embryos, the couple sought out a surrogate to give birth to their son, Duke, in 2012.

Hoping for a second child, the couple revealed their surrogate, who was carrying their last embryo, had miscarried. "It was painful," Giuliana told People. "We were so optimistic with this last embryo. We thought, This is definitely going to work. This is our last shot."

The model spoke outabout the struggle she and husband John Legend had conceiving. So when Chrissy announced her pregnancy on Instagram, she was ecstatic. "As many of you know, we've been trying to have a baby for a while now," she said. "It hasn't been easy, but we kept trying because we can't wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We're so excited that it's finally happening." And now there's adorable baby Luna!

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Mariah Carey

Before she became pregnant with twins Moroccan and Monroe, Mariah suffered a miscarriage, and when Barbara Walters asked her and ex-husband Nick Cannon on 20/20 if they had fertility treatments, Mariah confirmed. "The main thing I did that was tough was to go on progesterone, like, every month… and then when I was pregnant, I had to stay with the progesterone for 10 weeks," she said. "It minimizes the chance of miscarriage by 50 percent."

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Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy and wife Nancy Juvonen have two daughters, Winnie and Frances, born via a surrogate. "I know people have tried much longer [than we have], but if there's anyone out there who is trying and they're just losing hope… just hang in there," he told the Todayshow. "Try every avenue; try anything you can do, 'cause you'll get there. You'll end up with a family, and it's so worth it. It is the most 'worth it' thing."

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Tyra Banks

Tyra spoke out alongside Chrissy Teigen, admitting that she too has had fertility problems. "When I turned 40, the one thing I was not happy about is that I did not have kids." Of the IVF procedures she's undergone, she said, "I've had some not-happy moments with that, very traumatic moments. It's difficult as you get older. It's not something that can just happen."

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Sarah Jessica Parker

In 2009, SJP and husband Matthew Broderick revealed that they were expecting twins via a surrogate. The Sex and the City actress opened up to Access Hollywood when asked if she faced "disappointment" in getting pregnant, saying, "Yeah, I mean, I couldn't pretend otherwise.… It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son's birth."

Not long after welcoming her first son, James Knight, Jaime shared with her Instagram followers the difficulties getting to that moment. "This is the truth about conceiving my son and struggles after 8 yrs of pain and undiagnosed PCOS & Endometriosis. 9 doctors until Dr. Randy Harris diagnosed me & saved my life from a severe ectopic, 5 miscarriages, 5 rounds of IVF, 26 IUI's, most with no outcome, 4 1/2 years of trying to conceive, 26 hours of brutal labor, early delivery b/c of sudden preeclampsia..." she wrote.

"I was hiding what I was going through for so long, and I hear about so many women going through what I went through," she told People. "If I'm open about it, hopefully it won't be so taboo to talk about it."

While pregnant with her second son, Leo Thames, she opened up to Fit Pregnancy, saying, "When someone tells you, 'Oh, you might not be able to [carry a child],' you feel like it's the one thing that you have that's this gift, that makes you a woman, and there's something wrong with you."

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Brooke Shields

The two years before Brooke and husband Chris Henchy had their first child included rounds of artificial insemination, IVF, hormone shots, and miscarriage. "Everyone around me was getting pregnant," Brooke wrote in her memoir Down Came the Rain. "I was starting to feel bitter. Maybe I really wasn't meant to have kids."

"After a while, when you're not successful, you start to associate the word failure every time you pee on a stick and it doesn't come out the right color," she has also said. "What starts out as a dream becomes a project that's all-consuming—everywhere you look, women are pregnant, and every song on the radio seems like it's all about being pregnant! It becomes a very frustrating, frightening place."

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole has two adopted kids with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and delivered daughter Sunday Rose with husband Keith Urban at age 41. But the actress spoke out to Australia's 60 Minutes about the couple's struggle to conceive a second child, which eventually led to daughter Faith Margaret being born via a gestational carrier. "Anyone who's been in the place of wanting another child or wanting a child knows the disappointment, the pain and the loss that you go through trying," she said. "We were in a place of desperately wanting another child. I couldn't get pregnant."

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Khloé Kardashian

Back before Khloé and Lamar separated, the youngest Kardashian sister sought medical attention to help her get pregnant. "It's more about my hormones being off.… I was taking hormone shots to stabilize them, and you have to take those shots consistently and they have to be done by a doctor," she told Redbook. She had a positive outlook on the situation, though, saying, "I do think my difficulty getting pregnant has helped a lot of women."

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Elizabeth Banks

To introduce her first son, Felix, to the world after his birth in 2011, Elizabeth took to her blog: "The one true hurdle I've faced in life is that I have a broken belly. After years of trying to get pregnant, exploring the range of fertility treatments, all unsuccessful, our journey led us to gestational surrogacy: we make a 'baby cake' and bake it in another woman's 'oven'." She later told Lucky, "It was a womb issue for me. Embryos wouldn't implant."

Hugh and wife Deborra-Lee Furness now have two adopted children, Oscar and Ava, but revealed that they first tried having children the old-fashioned way. The actor told Katie Couric that, "Until you go through it, you realize [infertility is] not talked about a lot.… Deb and I always wanted to adopt, so that was always in our plan. We didn't know where in the process that would happen but biologically, obviously, we tried, and it was not happening for us. And it [was] a difficult time."

"We did IVF, and Deb had a couple of miscarriages," he continued. "The miscarriage thing, it apparently happens to one in three pregnancies. But it's very, very rarely talked about. It's almost secretive, you know, so I hope Deb doesn't mind me bringing it up now. It's a good thing to talk about it. It's more common, and it is tough. There's a grieving that you have to go through."

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Celine Dion

The Canadian icon underwent IVF for both of her pregnancies (with son René-Charles and twins Nelson and Eddy), and she dealt with many failed procedures before she and husband René Angélil met success. Growing up with 13 siblings, Celine told People that she wanted her firstborn to have that experience, too. "We would love for my son to have a brother or sister—no rats, no dogs, no fish can replace that, you know?"

Speaking out about her fertility struggle after the fact, she said, "With any pregnancy, whether it's through IVF or not, you feel a danger. You have to remain positive and try to relax as much as possible."

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Courteney Cox

Courteney thought having kids would be a breeze, but the Friends star had her fair share of problems. "I could get pregnant," but not maintain the pregnancies, she said. After several miscarriages, she and ex-husband David Arquette decided to do in vitro, and finally got pregnant with daughter Coco.

But the process took a toll, especially when Courteney was taping episodes of Friends: "I remember one time I just had a miscarriage, and Rachel [Jennifer Aniston's character] was giving birth.… Oh my God, it was terrible having to be funny."

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Gabrielle Union

Gabrielle opened up to Redbook about her struggles with IVF and the pressures she and husband Dwyane Wade feel about trying for a family later in life. "So far, it has not happened for us," she said. "There's a certain amount of shame that is placed on women who have perhaps chosen a career over starting a family younger. The penance for being a career woman is barrenness. You feel like you're wearing a scarlet letter." But all is not lost, she told the Todayshow. "There is so much hope; there are so many options."

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